Koji Tsuruta Movies

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.

A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after an assassination their henchmen will struggle to...

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an...

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he...

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period....

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.